Come on man, streng your brain a little.
For what do you mean, he needs the sitemap? FOR GOOGLE, right!!
And what do you get from Google, when you are indexed????...traffic
Reddit and the RSS submissions are just an EXTRA traffic income.
And as it was said before..you can monetize it with whatever you want. You don't have to use adbrite.
You can mix up things. PPC, PopUps, Banners, CPA, PPI... or just sell it - It's your decision.
When you have traffic, you have money.
Just because your indexed doesn't mean your gonna get traffic. You may get the odd hit but nothing of any worth especially when you are targeting broad popular search terms such as in this case.
Also you would need to do some massive SEO and build vast amounts of backlinks to even stand a chance of capturing organic traffic for these terms (celebs, gossip etc.)
This method seems as though it is relying 100% on traffic from Reddit or the other places mentioned. Maybe over time you may get some natural backlinks placed by visitors of the site but even these will not be optimized - you would need links on relevant, good PR sites with keyword rich anchor text. You also need proper unique content.
I think the idea of getting traffic from Reddit is interesting but it is not a set and forget type of traffic, seems you would need to constantly be doing this. It's not a bad thing if you are getting back something worth the time it takes you but i think the sums need to be done on what time you need to spend to get a decent return.
Just some rough calculations going on the limited info already given:
earnesthemmingway you say that a blog can earn a min of $50 per month and that you do the reddit thing 3 times a week.
I am guessing that it probably takes about 30 mins to find some content and then vote for it each time - Am i right??
If this is the case you are working for
(3 times a week) * 30 mins * 4 weeks = 6hrs per month for $50 - lets call it $10 per hour
Do you repeat this for lots of sites, do you have ways of scaling this or automating?
I'm just guessing here. can you comment on how accurate this assessment is?
When you flip your blogs do you tell the buyer that he will need to maintain this regime to keep the traffic/income
Tell us more I'm interested and thanks for sharing